CITATION ANALYSIS

After an eight year period of no citations, the paper appeared in a major
review of the role of giant interneurons in the orthopteroid orders of insects.
Subsequent investigations looked at the way other sensory modalities modified
escape response through interneurons not identified as giants The giant
interneurons were defined with greater resolution. For example, the dorsal
giant interneurons were found to function more during flight. Skepticism
toward assigning giant interneurons a primary role in solo activation of
a motor response grew with the evidence of sensory input from the antennae,
inhibitory interneurons in the terminal abdonminal ganglion, smaller ascending
interneurons modulating the response, and changing motivation attributed
to the subesophageal ganglion and brain. The role of non-spiking local interneurons
in the terminal abdominal ganglion and thoracic ganglion has begun despite
the difficulty of assigning polarity to nearby patches of the neural membrane.
Finally, novel techniques like the selective suppression of autonomous movement
in cockroaches stung by a parasitic wasp lends a view to exquisite natural
manipulation which can be recorded electrophysiologically. The easier portion
of the story was electrophysiological recording from some of the largest
interneurons in the insect, the difficult portion is all the little neurites
around the giant interneurons that influence when they fire an action potential.